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PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. Why everyone should drive a manual transmission.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Tue Mar 30, 2021, 11:56 AM

Mar 2021

It's simply not possible to accidentally put one in reverse.

More realistically, it's why drivers over age 70 or so should need to pass a new driving test every few years. I'm 72. When I lived in Kansas, every time you renewed your license you needed to pass a written test. They'd mail you a copy of the test and a booklet, and you could turn in the completed test once you got to the DMV. I always filled out out while waiting in line. Every so often there was a question I wasn't sure of, so I'd look it up in the book. I really appreciated being forced to renew some of that information every so often.

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Driver, 84, hits reverse by mistake and winds up parked atop another car [View all] left-of-center2012 Mar 2021 OP

I'm telling' ya...it's comin', it's comin'... ret5hd Mar 2021 #1

Why everyone should drive a manual transmission. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2021 #2